 Re: What does the sentence mean?
No - you've phrased the expression in a way it's not used in English - I found no examples at all of in spite of/ despite that fact in either BNC or Brown (UK and US corpora respectively of over 3m words total).
Use : [i]In spite of/Despite + noun phrase within the same sentence - as I used them in my examples. When you want to use a new clause, then use ... the fact that....
Other examples :
In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt
He decided to make the climb, despite the fact that everyone had said it was too dangerous |